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This book presents an investigation of language contact, focusing
on Northwestern China. It breaks down the barrier between human
sciences and natural sciences in order to reconsider the diversity
of languages on the basis of the latest research findings from
genetics, linguistics, and other domains, offering valuable
insights into when and how the divergence of languages and genes
began and language and gene admixture and replacement occurred. The
book focuses on language evolution between the border of Gansu and
Qinghai Province in China, but the research doesn't neglect the
area beyond China's northern borders. Manchu, a dying language
belonging to the Tungusic group, is also studied to enhance our
understanding of language replacement. This work is the result of a
four-year collaboration between teams of geneticists and linguists
in France and China.
Plural marking, numeral classifiers and reduplication constitute
the main means of quantification marking in the domain of grammar.
The contributions in this book focus onthe typological correlation
between the three different strategies for quantification, as well
as on some general issues. A better understanding of the
quantification strategies in the languages of China will enrich our
comprehension of human language and thought. The book is expected
to have an impact on the study of linguistic typology, language
contact, and patterns of the evolution.
This volume provides general linguists with new data and analysis
on languages spoken in China regarding various aspects of space and
quantification, using different approaches. Contributions by
researchers from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Europe, the
United States and Australia offer insights on aspects of language
ranging from phonology and morphology to syntax and semantics,
while the approaches vary from formal, historical, areal,
typological, and cognitive linguistics to second language
acquisition. After separate volumes on space and quantification in
languages of China, the studies in this volume combine space and
quantification to allow readers a view of the intersection of the
two topics. Each article contributes to general linguistic
knowledge while discussing a particular aspect of space or
quantification in a particular language/dialect, offering new data
and analysis from languages that are spoken in the same
geographical area, and that belong to various language families
that exist and evolve in close contact with one another.
This book studies the Tangwang language, providing the first
comprehensive grammar in English of this Chinese variety, with
detailed analysis of its phonology, morphology, and syntax. This
fills a gap in the literature, as previously only a few articles on
this language were available. The book takes an interdisciplinary
approach, examining genetic data to determine historical patterns
of population migration, as well as linguistic data that focus on
the influence of the Dongxiang (Santa) language as a consequence of
language contact on the Silk Road. The concluding chapter argues
that Tangwang has not yet become a mixed language, and that
syntactic borrowing has a stronger impact than lexical borrowing on
languages.
Space has long been a popular topic in linguistic research.
Numerous books on the subject have been published over the past
decade. However, none of these books were based on linguistic data
from Chinese and expressions of space in Chinese have been largely
neglected in past research. In this volume, not only Mandarin
Chinese (the standard language) is investigated; several other
dialects, as well as a minority language of China and Chinese Sign
Language are studied. Cross-linguistic, synchronic and diachronic
approaches are used to investigate phenomena related to space. The
authors of this book present different points of view on the
expression of space in language and related theoretical issues. As
the contributing scholars argue, Chinese shares many common
features with other languages, but also presents some particular
properties. Space is a topic that is both classical and modern, of
enduring interest. These studies of space give insight into not
only general linguistics but also other domains such as
anthropology and psychology.
This new interpretation of the early history of Chinese argues that
Old Chinese was typologically a 'mixed' language. It shows that,
though its dominant word order was subject-verb-object, this
coexisted with subject-object-verb. Professor Xu demonstrates that
Old Chinese was not the analytic language it has usually been
assumed to be, and that it employed morphological and lexical
devices as well as syntactic means. She describes the typological
changes that have taken place since the Han period and shows how
Chinese evolved into a more analytic language, supporting her
exposition with abundant examples. She draws where possible on
archaeological findings in order to distinguish between versions of
texts transmitted and sometimes modified through the hands of
generations of copyists. The author focusses on syntactic issues,
including word order, verbs, causative structures, resultative
compounds, and negation, but also pays close attention to what she
demonstrates are closely related changes in phonology and the
writing system. The book will interest scholars and graduate
students of Chinese linguistics, philology, classical literature as
well as general linguists interested in word-order typology and
language universals. It may be also be used as a text for advanced
courses in Classical Chinese and Chinese diachronic syntax.
This book presents an investigation of language contact, focusing
on Northwestern China. It breaks down the barrier between human
sciences and natural sciences in order to reconsider the diversity
of languages on the basis of the latest research findings from
genetics, linguistics, and other domains, offering valuable
insights into when and how the divergence of languages and genes
began and language and gene admixture and replacement occurred. The
book focuses on language evolution between the border of Gansu and
Qinghai Province in China, but the research doesn't neglect the
area beyond China's northern borders. Manchu, a dying language
belonging to the Tungusic group, is also studied to enhance our
understanding of language replacement. This work is the result of a
four-year collaboration between teams of geneticists and linguists
in France and China.
This volume provides general linguists with new data and analysis
on languages spoken in China regarding various aspects of space and
quantification, using different approaches. Contributions by
researchers from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Europe, the
United States and Australia offer insights on aspects of language
ranging from phonology and morphology to syntax and semantics,
while the approaches vary from formal, historical, areal,
typological, and cognitive linguistics to second language
acquisition. After separate volumes on space and quantification in
languages of China, the studies in this volume combine space and
quantification to allow readers a view of the intersection of the
two topics. Each article contributes to general linguistic
knowledge while discussing a particular aspect of space or
quantification in a particular language/dialect, offering new data
and analysis from languages that are spoken in the same
geographical area, and that belong to various language families
that exist and evolve in close contact with one another.
Space has long been a popular topic in linguistic research.
Numerous books on the subject have been published over the past
decade. However, none of these books were based on linguistic data
from Chinese and expressions of space in Chinese have been largely
neglected in past research. In this volume, not only Mandarin
Chinese (the standard language) is investigated; several other
dialects, as well as a minority language of China and Chinese Sign
Language are studied. Cross-linguistic, synchronic and diachronic
approaches are used to investigate phenomena related to space. The
authors of this book present different points of view on the
expression of space in language and related theoretical issues. As
the contributing scholars argue, Chinese shares many common
features with other languages, but also presents some particular
properties. Space is a topic that is both classical and modern, of
enduring interest. These studies of space give insight into not
only general linguistics but also other domains such as
anthropology and psychology.
Plural marking, numeral classifiers and reduplication constitute
the main means of quantification marking in the domain of grammar.
The contributions in this book focus on the typological correlation
between the three different strategies for quantification, as well
as on some general issues. A better understanding of the
quantification strategies in the languages of China will enrich our
comprehension of human language and thought. The book is expected
to have an impact on the study of linguistic typology, language
contact, and patterns of the evolution.
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